Sister Girl


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The articles in this collection represent a decade of writing by Aboriginal historian and activist Jackie Huggins. Sister Girl examines many topics, including community action, political commitment, the tradition and the value of oral history, and government intervention in Aboriginal lives. It challenges accepted notions of the appropriateness of mainstream feminism in Aboriginal society and of white historians writing Indigenous history. Closer to home, there are accounts of personal achievement and family experience as she revisits the writing of Auntie Rita with her mother Rita Huggins - the inspiration for her lifework.







The Lone Hand


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Until She Comes Home


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Nominated for a 2014 Edgar Award for Best Novel “You won’t be able to put [it] down.” —Ladies Home Journal Lori Roy follows her Edgar® Award-winning debut novel, Bent Road, with a spellbinding tale of suspense set against the crumbling façade of a once-respectable Detroit neighborhood in 1958. The ladies of Alder Avenue—Grace, Julia, and Malina—struggle to care for one another amidst a city ripe with conflict, but life erupts when child-like Elizabeth disappears. A black woman was recently murdered at the factory where their husbands work, and the ladies fear that crime may foretell Elizabeth’s fate. When an unmistakable sound rings out, will the vicious secrets that bind them all be revealed?







The Negro of the Old South


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The Negro of the Old South, written by a Mrs. Nicholas Ware Eppes, and published in 1925, is a book whose only relevance lies in its bias. The author explains her authority on the subject of slavery by stating that she is, "one of the lauded, much abused, much despised, and much ridiculed classes -- one of the blue-booded children of the Old South, surrounded for many years by the slaves who were as truly ours as anything else we owned and served by them in many ways, 'sence freedom drapped'." Such is the tone throughout the whole of this favorable recollection. Cooks are referred to as 'pets, ' the Klu Klux Klan is described as 'the great third kingdom, ' and the crime of lynching was never known by the African American in the south "until these apostles of negro equality (carpet-baggers) put it in the minds of the newly made citizens." The only historical analysis of slavery is given to suggest that the climate, the 'mother country' (Britain), the "New Englanders who sought a market for their wares," and others had forced the institution of slavery upon the South. -- Melissa Wilks and Alexander Wray-Kerr (Monticello High School Scholars Program, Spring 2003)







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Full Circle


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Jenna Thompson, the child of a healer, is herself a healer. She longs to become a registered nurse, to combine her healing skills with the science of medicine, using the best of both worlds to create a third world. Her dream will take her far from the small, segregated town where she was born and raised in 1950s South Carolina, encountering friendships that will last a lifetime. Five men will play a major role in Jenna’s life: Henry Lloyd and Sidney, two of her six brothers; one a best friend; a confidant; and the other, her guide in the spirit world. Michael Edwards has loved Jenna all his life. Her unexplained disappearance shrivels their blossoming feelings. Curtice Brooks ignites the passion and fire of first love, but his fierce battle for civil rights ends in tragedy. Branson Radcliffe is a handsome, brash, arrogant doctor, accustomed to getting what he wants, especially women. He has desired Jenna for years, so when the opportunity arrives, he seizes it, trapping her in a loveless marriage with a mother-in-law who is the stuff of nightmares. Will Jenna’s journey lead her back to where it all began, bringing her Full Circle to the love that has been waiting a lifetime?